Real insiders no longer use electronic communication to discuss illegal behavior

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Mark Melin
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In 2007, leading up to the global financial crisis, the value of a Wall Street reputation was less than today, a Greenwich Associates report benchmarks. To boost the reputational value on Wall Street there is a technical answer. Addressing problematic issues rather than avoiding them, in part, involves electronic surveillance and artificial intelligence at the brokerage level. Real insiders no longer use electronic communication to discuss illegal behavior With the advent of Signal and other stealth electronic communications methods, traders can digitally engage in often undetected communication patterns. When one industry operates in the same general geographic region, information can…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.